CIV-2011-485-227
In the matter of the Law Practitioners Act 1982, and in the matter of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006:
Pursuant to section 119 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982, notice is hereby given that on 7 February 2011, the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal ordered as follows:
THAT:
1. Kenneth Michael Daniels be suspended from practice as a barrister and solicitor for a period of three years from 7 February 2011.
2. The practitioner is ordered to pay compensation to the complainant in the sum of $5,000.00.
3. The practitioner is censured.
4. The practitioner is ordered to pay the sum of $40,000.00 to the New Zealand Law Society.
AND further as a result of appeal in the High Court
at Wellington on the 18th day of August 2011, it was ordered as follows:
That the appeal against the decision of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal dated the
7th day of February 2011 be dismissed.
Dated at Wellington this 1st day of November 2011.
SUE LE’AUPEPE, Deputy Registrar, High Court of
New Zealand, Wellington.